Abstract
The energy, environmental quality, and the people’s wellbeing nexus is an essential part of meeting the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). This is the focus of many stakeholders including researchers, urban developers and decision makers. The dependencies among energy and the people’s wellbeing are well documented and energy security has been identified as a key variable in the relationship between energy and people’s well-being (Mayer & Smith, 2019). Energy security has been described in terms of three dimensions; economic, which is about a household’s ability to pay for their energy; physical, which is about the quality of the built environment in terms of energy efficiency and thermal comfort, and behavioural, which is about the behaviour of a household with respect to their energy needs. Focus on the physical dimension by improving the energy efficiency of the built environment and transitioning to environment friendly renewable energy sources has provided households new opportunities to improve their energy sources, e.g., to solar energy. However, these often come with many challenges such as the cost of the transition and regulatory restrictions to change the facade or interior of the building. More importantly, the lack of knowledge about these new opportunities causes stress to many people. We have developed some concepts as mobile applications, where we look at the nexus of many SDGs, e.g., energy, mobility and health (Petersen et al., 2020), or energy, built environment and economy, to raise the awareness and understanding among people, that could help them make sustainable transitions.
